This week, Niki and John dive into the news that BioWare is downsizing and outsourcing part of Mass Effect 5's development. More than that, it strikes our hosts that maybe the series should go away if it means saving the jobs of the remaining employees tasked with such a burden. Anyway, it's a good discussion about a complicated problem. Also:

• the Video Game History Foundation's excellent new digital archives have launched
• Forza Horizon 5 is coming to PS5 with crossplay
• Microsoft's two-sided strategy
• Eternal Strands
• Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.
• Ninja Gaiden II Black

We also answer your HIVE QUESTIONS, including "what's the video game equivalent of 'hot singles in your area?'"